Judge Strikes Down Plan to Open One Million Acres of California Public Lands to Drilling

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By Mike GaworeckiSep 8, 2016, 7:46 pm320 pts
On September 6, a U.S. district judge in Los Angeles issued a ruling overturning a federal plan to open vast tracts of public land in central California to oil and gas drilling, which includes hydraulic fracturing (fracking).U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald ruled that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)…

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